Yekaterinburg

[ yuh-kat-er-in-burg; Russian yi-kuh-tyi-ryin-boork ]

noun

1. Ekaterinburg.

Yekaterinburg

/ jɪkətɪrinˈburk /

noun

1. a city in NW Russia, in the Ural Mountains: scene of the execution (1918) of Nicholas II and his family; university (1920); one of the largest centres of heavy engineering in Russia. Pop: 1 281 000 (2005 est) Former name (1924–91)Sverdlovsk

Example Sentences

He moved to Yekaterinburg, then Kursk, and spent three years in Kurgan, a city to the east of the Ural mountains, before he lost his job at the philharmonic orchestra there in 2022.

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The court in Yekaterinburg found her guilty of high treason and sentenced her to imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.

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The FSB said Ms Karelina had been detained in Yekaterinburg in February - the same city in which US journalist Evan Gershkovich was arrested on charges of espionage on 29 March last year.

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His ordeal began roughly two months later during his reporting trip to Yekaterinburg, a major Russian industrial hub.

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The Wall Street Journal reporter was detained by Russia’s Federal Security Service in March 2023 while on a reporting assignment in Yekaterinburg, a city about 1,000 miles east of Moscow.

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